With the internet helping musicians and bands connect directly with their fans these days, a good web presence is essential to help with music and ticket sales or just to present your work to the widest possible audience. Step in WordPress once again, an ideal platform for this – there are a number of specialist themes available which is the subject of today’s post, lets take a look at 20 of the best …

Event

Event is a versatile theme that allows you to transform your blog into an events website. Past and future events are managed with ease from within the WordPress dashboard, and are displayed on the homepage in an intuitive and interactive calendar.

ColdStone

Coldstone offers a unique blend of grungy and professional elements. The theme comes with three unique homepage formats, including Business Style, Blog Style, and Magazine Style, and a robust options menu that makes managing ColdStone fast and easy.

Musician

Create an Ecommerce site in WordPress for Artists to share/sell their work. This theme will hep you in creating a Ecommerce site that not only has plethora of options and functionalities but also looks neat, clean and focuses on content.

Tarnished

Always wanted a grunge theme but never found one that actually looked good. Tarnished offers you that “grunge” look with a modern twist making it great for all types of sites including magazines, portfolios and general blogging.

The Grammy Theme

Foxhound’s Grammy Theme is for the band that wants their website as professional as they are. It comes with 8 background colours which completely change the vibe of the theme (wood, concrete, amp mesh, underwater, velvet, ghost, crosshatch turquoise, crosshatch red).

Setlist

Setlist is a WordPress theme designed for Music bands, and artists in general that want to have a cutting edge design and great features for their band website. Featured include a photo carousel slider for featured articles, event calendar for schedule shows or any kind of events with an extremely easy module to add-edit-schedule events and featured articles.

Backstage

Backstage is a powerful niche theme design for musicians and artists showcasing their media, upcoming shows and music using hugely flexible custom widgets and audio players. This beautifully crafted layout was designed by Elliot Jay Stocks and boasts 7 alternate styles.

Dance Floor

Dance Floor is a WordPress Night Club theme with cutting edge design and visuals built for Night Clubs and Music sites in general. The theme supports the popular Audio and Video Player plugin MediaElement.js (upload your own songs) compatible with iPhone and iPad (iOS) devices and mobile smartphones.

Night Club

NightClubbing Theme is a WordPress cutting edge theme built for Night Clubs and Music sites in general. The theme features Audio and Video Player compatible with all the popular players in the market like Mixpod.com, SoundCloud.com, ReverbNation.com and videos from YouTube, Vimeo, DailyMotion, etc, just paste your code with your playlist and the player will show on your homepage.

Rugged Theme

Fuse Music

Fuse Music WordPress theme is a theme targeting Musicians. This theme was created for bands or indiviuals who are looking to create a blog or portfolio for their band or team members. This theme also uses a social media plugin which allows you to add any exsiting social media websites that you or your band are currently on/using.

Full Features | Price: $35

Garage Band

The most flexible and feature-packed band theme ever. Now featuring Carrington Build (available in Developer Package).

Full Features | Price: $50

Disco

Disco, one of our themes, is designed with music in mind. If you own major/indie recording companies or if you are a music producer, director or event organizer, the premium WP ecommerce themes will serve you well as an online publication.

Nice list, some of them are a bit simplistic though and don’t provide anything extra for my band, for example the music player. I think thats a must for a theme aimed at bands, I don’t think having just a grungy design qualifies it as a theme for musicians.

Thanks again Oli for sharing our themes on your site, we love working for musicians and really appreciate the support :) We just completely overhauled our most popular theme into Dark N Gritty Evolved. Now it’s responsive/retina/etc. with a ton more visual options and some more discography options.

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